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ORCHESTRA OF THE ALFREDO DE SAINT MALO FESTIVAL 2010

 

Conductor

George Mathew

Repertoire

Sensemaya, Silvestre Revueltas
Sinfonía No. 5,  Serguei Prokofiev
Concerto for violin and orchestra, Roque Cordero  
Soloist, Rachel Barton Pine

Coaches

Strings José Aurelio Castillo Pereira, violin (concertmaster – Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica)
Mary Ann Mumm, violin / viola (soloist and chamber musician)
Craig Mumm, viola (associate principal – Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)
Woodwinds Mathew Krejci*, flute (principal – California Chamber Orchestra y Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra)
Thomas Nugent*, oboe (principal – Sacramento Philhamonic Orchestra)
Patricia Shands*, clarinet (Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra)
Nicolasa Kuster*, basoon (principal – New Hampshire Music Festival)
Brass Jennie Blomster*, french horn (Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra)   
Lacey Hays, trumpet (Youth Orchestra of the Americas)
Ingrith Saavedra, tuba (Cuarteto de Tubas "Gravíssimo," Lic. en Mus. Universidad de Panama, Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, Magister en Mus. Illinois State University)

*Members of the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet
Percussion Leonardo Soto, percussion (principal timpani – Charlotte Symphony Orchestra)

Members

Flute
Mendez, Marcela (Costa Rica) – 1 flute – (rotating)
Villegas, Raquel (Costa Rica) – 1 flute – (rotating)
Ruiz Acosta, Manuel Arnuffo (Panama) – 2nd flute
Herrera González, Rómulo Luis (Panama) – 3rd flute

Piccolo
Ruiz Acosta, Manuel Arnuffo (Panama)

Oboes, English horns
Magallón, Leopoldo (Panama)
Quintero Fonseca, Indira (Costa Rica)
#Escala, Vladimir (Panama) – 3rd oboe

Clarinet in Sib
Fong Castillo, Alexis Euclides (Panama) – 1st clarinet (rotating)
Jansen, Matthew (Panama) – 1st clarinet (rotating)
Henry, Roberto (Costa Rica) – clarinet – 2nd clarinet

Bass Clarinet in Sib
Arosemana Sandoval, Ana Patricia – bass clarinet

Bassoon
Ferrabolé, Melanie (Panama)
Chong Ávila, Hiroi Augusto (Panama)
Odvil, Keith (Panama)

Contrabassoon
Horns in Fa
De León Ramos, Erick (Panama) – 1rst horn
#Ramos, Martha (Panama) – horn
#Irving (Panama) – horn
#Zúñiga, José (Panama) – horn

Trumpets
Pagán, Juan (Panama) – 1st and 2nd trumpet (rotating)
Acevedo, Jossué (Panama) –1st and 2nd trumpet (rotating)
#Rivera, René (Panama) – 3rd trumpet

Trombones
Pinto Arias, Gerardo (Panama) – 1st trombone
Sandoval Romero, Jonathan César (Panama) – 2nd trombone

Bass Trombone
Luisano, Luis (Costa Rica) – bass trombone

Tuba
Vanegas de León, José Daniel (Panama) –
Dutary Barrios, Edgar Alberto (Panama) –

Timpani
Aguilar, Fermín (Panama)

Percussionists
Díaz, Alexis (Panama)
#Santamaría, Michelle (Panama)

#Alternate Students

Violins/Violas
Maria Jesus (Costa Rica)
Amaya, Ana Isabel (Guatemala)
+Barradas Galván, Francisco Eduardo (Mexico)
Castaño, Laura (Guatemala)
Castro, Cristian (Guatemala)
+Fernández López, Perla del Rocío (Mexico)
+Flores Contreras, Carolina (Mexico)
*Galdamez, Andrea (Guatema)
García, Dennis (Honduras)
García, Lesvin (Honduras)
González Ayala, Cinthia Yelena (Panama)
+Guevara Díaz, Zahil (Mexico)
Luarca, Alex (Guatemala)
+Melgar Blancas, Delia Yessica Pamela (Mexico)
+Montes Briones, Dante Augusto (Mexico)
Olivero Juárez, Lorenzo (Panama)
Olivero Juárez, Lorenzo Javier (Panama)
Ovalle, Luis (Guatemala)
Racines Smatecuic, Oryana (Panama)
*Reyes, Alvaro (Guatemala)
+Uribe Domínguez, Daniel Itzcoatl (Mexico)
+Vázquez Hernández, Gabriel (Mexico)
+Vázquez Hernández, Lina (Mexico)
+Velázquez Ávila, Salvador (Mexico)
Villegas, Ana Cecilia (Guatemala)

Alvarado, Maynor (Guatemala)
*de Gandarias, Iunuhe (Guatemala)
+García Salas, Anamar (Mexico)
Marroquín, Astrid (Guatemala)
Medina Veiga, Santiago Raúl (Uruguay)
+Vázquez Aguilar, Abraham (Mexico)
+Villalpando Dijas, Jesús Eduardo (Mexico)

Cello
Añón Sobrera, Ignacio Darío (Uruguay)
Castro Castillo, Adriana (Mexico)
+Cruz Morales, Ángel Manuel Adrián (Mexico)
Galdamez, Ana (Guatemala)
Gonzalez Herrera, Diego (Uruguay)
Guzman, Melvin (Guatemala)
Moreno Ottonello, José Pedro (Uruguay)
+Presa Rodríguez, Cintia (Mexico)
Rodas, Valery (Guatemala)
Rojo, Lucía (Uruguay)
*Vasquez, Kenneth (Guatemala)

Contrabass
Donate, Andres (Guatemala)
Expósito, Marcos (Uruguay)
+Godínez Dominguez, Ulises (Mexico)
+Hernández Montero, Carlos Darío (Mexico)
Urrutia, Jorge (Guatemala)

*Cuarteto Asturias
+Orquesa Juvenil del Estado de Veracruz


Live Audition

Date:  Friday January 8th,  2010, from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.  
Location:  Headquarters of the Santa Marta Parish in Altos del Chase, Bethania

Deadline to turn in the application and reserve a slot for the live audition is Tuesday December 15, 2009.

CD o DVD Audition

Only applicants residing outside the country of Panama can audition by CD or DVD. For these applicants the deadline to turn in the application and the CD or DVD is January 12, 2009. The application can be sent to our e-mail address info@funsincopa.org, and the CD or DVD should be sent to our address in Panama:

Fundación Sinfonía Concertante de Panama
Apartado 0819-09088
El Dorado
Panama, República de Panama

Age Limit to Audition

Minimum: 15 years old
Maximum: 35 years old 

Application to Participate in the Orchestra of the Alfredo De Saint Malo Music Festival 2010

Visit this link to obtain the application to participate in the Orchestra of the Alfredo de Saint Malo Music Festival 2010:

Application to Participate in the Orchestra of Alfredo de Saint Malo Music Festival 2010 PDF (88 KB)

Repertoire for the Audition

Click on the word “Excerpt(s)” to download the orchestral excerpts of each instrument.

Strings

  • Violin
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Mozart; Symphony No. 35; Ist mov., from the beginning to measure 35.  Excerpt
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., rehearsal number 22 to the first measure of rehearsal number 24.  Excerpt, page 1
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; IV mov., rehearsal number 81 to the seventh measure of rehearsal number 82.  Excerpt, page 2
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; rehearsal number 15 to 17.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., six measures before rehearsal number 14 to the fourth measure of rehearsal number 15.  
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., ten first measures of rehearsal number 22.
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., up beat to the sixth measure before rehearsal number 14 to the fourth measure of rehearsal number 15.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; II mov., first nine measures of rehearsal number 55.
  • Contrabass
    • First movement of a standard concerto or any other piece for solo contrabass.
    • Mozart: Symphony No. 40; Ist mov., measures 114 to 138.  Excerpt
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., rehearsal number 18 to the ninth measure of rehearsal number 19.  Excerpt

Woodwinds and Brass

* We encourage the applicants to also prepare the excerpts for the auxiliary instruments (piccolo, english horn, clarinet in Eb, and bass clarinet). Note: It is not a requirement to audition with the auxiliary instrument. If you do not have or do not play an auxiliary instrument, this will not affect the outcome of your audition.
  • Flute
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, Ist mov., rehearsal number 21 to the first measure of rehearsal number 24.  Excerpt
    • Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Scherzo, two measures before rehearsal letter P to the end.  Excerpt
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; III mov., measures 162 to 203.  
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., rehearsal number 21 to the sixth measure of rehearsal number 22.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; II mov., rehearsal number 36 to the ninth measure of rehearsal number 39.
    • Rossini: La Scala di Seta; Overture, measures 37 to 53.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., six measures before rehearsal number 14 to the second measure of rehearsal number 14.
    • Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 New World, 2nd mov., solo (measures 7 to 18).
  • Clarinet in Bb
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; II mov., rehearsal number 36 to the ninth measure of rehearsal number 39.  Excerpt
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream; Scherzo, from the beginning to rehearsal letter B.  Excerpt
  • Clarinet in Eb *
    • Prokofiev No. 5: Ist mov.; a) first ten measures of rehearsal number 22, and b) five measures before rehearsal number 24 to the first measure of rehearsal number 24.  Excerpt
    • Shostakovich: Simphony No. 5; 2nd mov., ten measures before rehearsal number 54 to the first measure of rehearsal number 54.  Excerpt
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., upbeat to rehearsal number 3 to the fifth measure of rehearsal number 4.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., 2 measures before rehearsal number 7 to the first measure of rehearsal number 8.
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., first 7 measures.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; II mov., a) first 22 measures of rehearsal number 39 and  b) the first 10 measures of rehearsal number 55.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade II mov., measure 5 to 26.
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., seven measures before rehearsal number 14 to the second measure of rehearsal number 15.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., two measures before rehearsal number 16 to the seventh measure of rehearsal number  17.
    • R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; measures 1 to 17 (1st horn).
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., one measure before rehearsal number 8 to the seventh measure of rehearsal number 8.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; II mov., one measure before rehearsal number 55 to the eigth measure of  rehearsal number 55.
    • Revueltas: Sensemayá; upbeat to rehearsal number 23 to the first beat of rehearsal number 25.
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., first 13 measures of rehearsal number 24.
    • Revueltas: Sensemayá; one measure before rehearsal number 23 to the first beat of rehearsal number 25.
    • Mozart: Requiem; Tuba mirum, solo (first 18 measures).
  • Bass Trombone
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Revueltas: Sensemayá; one measure before rehearsal number 23 to the first beat of rehearsal number 25.  Excerpt
    • Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust; Hungarian march, measures 89 to 114.  Excerpt
    • Haydn: The Creation; No. 26, first 12 measures.  Excerpt
    • First movement of a standard concerto.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Ist mov., 5 measures before rehearsal number 16 to the eighth measure of rehearsal number 19.
    • Revueltas: Sensemayá; rehearsal number 2 to the fourth measure of rehearsal number 4.

Percussion

Applicants may apply for both timpani and percussion or only percussion.

Timpani
  • Timpani
    • Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celesta; 2nd. mov., from the upbeat of measure 302 to measure 338.  Excerpt
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9; Ist mov., from the upbeat of measure 17 to measure 35.  Excerpt
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Ist mov., from rehearsal letter T to rehearsal letter V.  Excerpt
Percussion
  • Snare Drum
    • Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije;Ist mov., from rehearsal number 1 to 3.  Excerpt
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; 4th mov.. a) one measure before rehearsal letter C to letter D, and b) from rehearsal letter P to letter R.  Excerpt
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Variation M.
    • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Overture, beginning (measure 4 to 18).
    • P. Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier, a) four measures after rehearsal number 17 to three measures after rehearsal number 19, and b) from rehearsal number 22 to 24.

 

If you can not obtain, download, or print the orchestral excerpts attached to this website, you can pick them up at the main office of the Fundación Sinfonía Concertante de Panama.  

If you have any questions about the auditions please contact us at info@funsincopa.org.

       

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